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id="toc-Short_vowels" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Short_vowels"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5.2</span> <span>Short vowels</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Short_vowels-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Palatalization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Palatalization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>Palatalization</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Palatalization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tone" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tone"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Tone</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tone-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Disambiguation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Disambiguation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Disambiguation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Disambiguation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Emphasis" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Emphasis"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>Emphasis</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Emphasis-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Letter_extension" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Letter_extension"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.10</span> <span>Letter extension</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Letter_extension-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_uses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_uses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.11</span> <span>Other uses</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_uses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-English" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#English"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.12</span> <span>English</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-English-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Typographic_form" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Typographic_form"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Typographic form</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Typographic_form-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Typographic form subsection</span> </button> <ul 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Microsoft_Windows"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Microsoft Windows</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Microsoft_Windows-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-macOS" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#macOS"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>macOS</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-macOS-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Keyboards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Keyboards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Keyboards</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Keyboards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9" title="نبرة حادة – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="نبرة حادة" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acentu_agudu" title="Acentu agudu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Acentu agudu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82" title="Акут – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Акут" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82" title="Акут – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Акут" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_lemm" title="Tired lemm – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Tired lemm" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent_agut" title="Accent agut – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Accent agut" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C%C3%A1rka_(diakritika)" title="Čárka (diakritika) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Čárka (diakritika)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akut" title="Akut – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Akut" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akuut" title="Akuut – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Akuut" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CE%BE%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Οξεία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Οξεία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acento_agudo" title="Acento agudo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Acento agudo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekstra_korno" title="Dekstra korno – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Dekstra korno" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azentu_zorrotz" title="Azentu zorrotz – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Azentu zorrotz" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88" title="اکسان اگو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اکسان اگو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent_aigu" title="Accent aigu – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Accent aigu" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerpteken" title="Skerpteken – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Skerpteken" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A0c_gheur" title="Stràc gheur – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Stràc gheur" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acento_agudo" title="Acento agudo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Acento agudo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%96%91%EC%9D%8C_%EB%B6%80%ED%98%B8" title="양음 부호 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="양음 부호" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksen_tirus" title="Aksen tirus – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Aksen tirus" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broddur_(stafmerki)" title="Broddur (stafmerki) – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Broddur (stafmerki)" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accento_acuto" title="Accento acuto – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Accento acuto" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksen_akut" title="Aksen akut – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Aksen akut" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntuk_a_sakurut" title="Puntuk a sakurut – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Puntuk a sakurut" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="აკუტი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="აკუტი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%82" title="Акут – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Акут" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak%C5%ABts" title="Akūts – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Akūts" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a 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font-size:750%; line-height:1.2; font-weight:bold; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times, 'Nimbus Roman No9 L', 'Liberation Serif', serif, georgia;">◌́</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-size:125%; background:#ebebeb; font-weight:bold; padding:0.1em; line-height:1.2em;">Acute accent</div></th></tr><tr style="float:left;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+0301</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">́</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT</span> (diacritic)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">See also</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00B4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">´</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">ACUTE ACCENT</span> (symbol)</li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+02CA</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">ˊ</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Modifier_letter" title="Modifier letter">MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT</a></span> (symbol)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right noprint selfref"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">This article contains <b><a href="/wiki/Phonetic_transcription" title="Phonetic transcription">phonetic transcriptions</a> in the <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a> (IPA)</b>. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">Help:IPA</a>. For the distinction between <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ ]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ /</span> and ⟨<span title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"> </span>⟩, see <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Brackets_and_transcription_delimiters" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters</a>.</div></div> </div> <p>The <b>acute accent</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/j/: 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></span>/</a></span></span>), <span style="font-family: serif"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">◌́</span></span>, is a <a href="/wiki/Diacritic" title="Diacritic">diacritic</a> used in many modern written languages with <a href="/wiki/Alphabet" title="Alphabet">alphabets</a> based on the <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed characters</a> are available. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uses">Uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An early precursor of the acute accent was the <a href="/wiki/Apex_(diacritic)" title="Apex (diacritic)">apex</a>, used in <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a> inscriptions to mark <a href="/wiki/Vowel_length" title="Vowel length">long vowels</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pitch">Pitch</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Pitch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ancient_Greek">Ancient Greek</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Ancient Greek"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_accent" title="Ancient Greek accent">Ancient Greek accent</a></div> <p>The acute accent was first used in the <a href="/wiki/Greek_diacritics" title="Greek diacritics">polytonic orthography</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a>, where it indicated a syllable with a high <a href="/wiki/Pitch_accent" class="mw-redirect" title="Pitch accent">pitch</a>. In Modern Greek, a <a href="/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)" title="Stress (linguistics)">stress accent</a> has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and is <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%80%CE%BE%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%B1#Ancient_Greek" class="extiw" title="wikt:ὀξεῖα">ὀξεῖα</a></span> (<i>oxeîa</i>, Modern Greek <i>oxía</i>) "sharp" or "high", which was <a href="/wiki/Calque" title="Calque">calqued</a> (loan-translated) into <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> as <i lang="la"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acutus#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:acutus">acūta</a></i> "sharpened". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Stress">Stress</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Stress"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Acute_accent" title="Special:EditPage/Acute accent">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2021</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The acute accent marks the <a href="/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)" title="Stress (linguistics)">stressed vowel</a> of a word in several languages: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asturian_language" title="Asturian language">Asturian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackfoot_language" title="Blackfoot language">Blackfoot</a> uses acute accents to show the place of stress in a word, for example, <i>soyópokistsi</i> (<abbr title="translation">transl.</abbr><span> "leaves"</span>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>: stress, which is variable in Bulgarian, is not usually indicated in Bulgarian except in dictionaries and sometimes in homonyms that are distinguished only by stress. However, Bulgarian usually uses the <a href="/wiki/Grave_accent#Stress" title="Grave accent">grave accent</a> to mark the vowel in a stressed syllable, unlike Russian and Ukrainian, which use the acute accent.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a> uses it in stressed vowels: <i>é</i>, <i>í</i>, <i>ó</i>, <i>ú</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> uses it to mark stress (<i>vóórkomen</i> – <i>voorkómen</i>, meaning <i>occur</i> and <i>prevent</i> respectively) or a more <a href="/wiki/Vowel#Height" title="Vowel">closed</a> vowel (<i>hé</i> – <i>hè</i>, equivalent to English <i>hey</i> and <i>heh</i>) if it is not clear from context. Sometimes, it is simply used for disambiguation, as in <i>één</i> – <i>een</i>, meaning "one" and "a(n)".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galician_language" title="Galician language">Galician</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a> has acute to mark a higher tone.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> uses the accent, called a <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">síneadh fada</i></span> in Irish, to indicate a long vowel. It is commonly referred to simply as a <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">fada</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> The accent is used to indicate the stress in a word, or whether the vowel is "open" or "wide", or "closed", or "narrow". For example, <i>pèsca</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[ˈpɛska]</a></span> "peach" ("open" or "wide" vowel, as in "pen") and <i>pésca</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[ˈpeska]</a></span> "fishing" ("closed" or "narrow" vowel, as in "pain"). However, in some regional accents, these words can be pronouned the same way, or even with opposite values.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakota_language" title="Lakota language">Lakota</a>. For example, <i>kákhi</i> "in that direction" but <i>kakhí</i> "take something to someone back there".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonese_language" title="Leonese language">Leonese</a> uses it for marking stress or disambiguation.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek" title="Modern Greek">Modern Greek</a> marks the stressed vowel of every polysyllabic word: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ά</span> (<i>á</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">έ</span> (<i>é</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ή</span> (<i>í</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ί</span> (<i>í</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ό</span> (<i>ó</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ύ</span> (<i>í</i>), <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ώ</span> (<i>ó</i>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navajo_language" title="Navajo language">Navajo</a> where the acute marks a higher tone.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a> use the acute accent to indicate that a terminal syllable with the <i>e</i> is stressed and is often omitted if it does not change the meaning: <i>armen</i> (first syllable stressed) means "the arm" while <i>armé(e)n</i> means "the army"; <i>ide</i> (first syllable stressed) means "bear's den" in Swedish,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <i>idé</i> means "idea". Also stress-related are the different spellings of the words en/én and et/ét (the indefinite article and the word "one" in Danish and Norwegian). In Norwegian, however, the neuter word "one" is spelled ett. Then, the acute points out that there is one and only one of the object, which derives from the obsolete spelling(s) een and eet. Some loanwords, mainly from French, are also written with the acute accent, such as Norwegian and Swedish <i>kafé</i> and Danish <i>café</i> (also <i>cafe</i>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>: <i>á</i>, <i>é</i>, <i>í</i>, <i>ó</i>, <i>ú</i>. It may also indicate height (see below).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>. Syllabic stress is irregular in Russian, and in reference and teaching materials (dictionaries and books for children or foreigners), stress is indicated by an acute accent above the stressed vowel, e.g. <i>соба́ка</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Russian pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[sɐˈbakə]</a></span>, dog), as follows: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">а́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">е́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">и́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">о́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">у́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ы́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">э́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ю́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">я́</span>. The acute accent can be used both in the Cyrillic and sometimes in the romanised text.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a> marks stressed syllables in polysyllabic words that deviate from the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_orthography#Stress_and_accentuation" title="Spanish orthography">standardized stress patterns</a>. In monosyllabic words, it is used to distinguish homophones, e.g.: <i>el</i> (the) and <i>él</i> (he).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a> dictionaries including other <a href="/wiki/Philippine_languages" title="Philippine languages">Philippine languages</a> use the acute accent to mark a vowel in a syllable with lexical stress <i>(Diín)</i> and avoid ambiguity. Combinations include á, í, ó, and ú while é is the rarest one. Since they are not part of the official alphabet, these vowels do not affect the order of each letter. Vowels with a stress at the first syllable are left unwritten and serves as the default word. For example, <i>baka</i> (cow) and <i>baká</i> (maybe).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>: sometimes added to mark syllabic stress, when it can help to distinguish between <a href="/wiki/Homograph" title="Homograph">homographs</a>: <span title="Ukrainian-language text"><span lang="uk">за́мок</span></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">castle</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span> vs. <span title="Ukrainian-language text"><span lang="uk">замо́к</span></span> <span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">lock</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>, as follows: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">а́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">е́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">и́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">і́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">о́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">у́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ю́</span>, <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">я́</span>. Commonly used in dictionaries, readers, and some children's books.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_language" title="Welsh language">Welsh</a>: word stress usually falls on the penultimate syllable, but one way of indicating stress on a final (short) vowel is by the use of the acute accent. In the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_orthography" title="Welsh orthography">Welsh orthography</a>, it can be on any vowel: <i>á</i>, <i>é</i>, <i>í</i>, <i>ó</i>, <i>ú</i>, <i>ẃ</i>, or <i>ý</i>. Examples: <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">casáu</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="cy-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Welsh" title="Help:IPA/Welsh">[kaˈsaɨ,<span class="wrap"> </span>kaˈsai]</a></span> "to hate", <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">sigarét</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="cy-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Welsh" title="Help:IPA/Welsh">[sɪɡaˈrɛt]</a></span> "cigarette", <span title="Welsh-language text"><i lang="cy">ymbarél</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="cy-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Welsh" title="Help:IPA/Welsh">[əmbaˈrɛl]</a></span> "umbrella".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Height">Height</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Height"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The acute accent marks the <a href="/wiki/Vowel_height" class="mw-redirect" title="Vowel height">height</a> of some stressed vowels in various <a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance languages</a>. </p> <ul><li>To mark high vowels: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bislama_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Bislama language">Bislama</a>. One of the two orthographies distinguishes <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[e]</span> from <i>e</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The orthography after 1995 does not distinguish these sounds, and has no diacritics.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>. The acute marks the quality of the vowels <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[e]</span> (as opposed to <i>è</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>), and <i>ó</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[o]</span> (as opposed to <i>ò</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>. The acute is used on <i>é</i>. It is known as <i>accent aigu</i>, in contrast to the <i><a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">accent grave</a></i> which is the accent sloped the other way. It distinguishes <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[e]</span> from <i>è</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>, <i>ê</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>, and <i>e</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ə]</span>. Unlike in other Romance languages, the accent marks do not imply stress in French.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>. The acute accent (sometimes called <i>accento chiuso</i>, "closed accent" in Italian) is compulsory only in words of more than one syllable stressed on their final vowel (and a few other words). Words ending in stressed -o are never marked with an acute accent (<i>ó</i>), but with a <a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">grave accent</a> (<i>ò</i>). Therefore, only <i>é</i> and <i>è</i> are normally contrasted, typically in words ending in <i>-ché</i>, such as <i>perché</i> ("why/because"); in the conjugated <a href="/wiki/Copula_(linguistics)" title="Copula (linguistics)">copula</a> <i>è</i> ("is"); in ambiguous monosyllables such as <i>né</i> ('neither') <i>vs.</i> <i>ne</i> ('of it') and <i>sé</i> ('itself') <i>vs.</i> <i>se</i> ('if'); and some verb forms, <i>e.g.</i> <i>poté</i> ("he/she/it could" (past tense)). The symbol <i>ó</i> can be used in the body of a word for disambiguation, for instance between <i>bótte</i> ("barrel") and <i>bòtte</i> ("beating"), though this is not mandatory: in fact standard Italian keyboards lack a dedicated <i>ó</i> key.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a>. The acute marks the quality of the vowels <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[e]</span> (as opposed to <i>è</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>), <i>ó</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[u]</span> (as opposed to <i>ò</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span>) and <i>á</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ/e]</span> (as opposed to <i>à</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[a]</span>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic</a> rather than Romance language) uses/used a system in which <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[eː]</span> is contrasted with <i>è</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛː]</span> and <i>ó</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[oː]</span> with <i>ò</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔː]</span>. Both the grave and acute indicate length; <i>é</i>/<i>è</i> and <i>ó</i>/<i>ò</i> are thus contrasted with <i>e</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ/e]</span> and <i>o</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ/o/ɤ]</span> respectively. Besides, <i>á</i> appears in the words <i>á</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[a]</span>, <i>ám</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ãũm]</span> and <i>ás</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[as]</span> in order to distinguish them from <i>a</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ə]</span>, <i>am</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[əm]</span> and <i>as</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[əs]</span> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other vowels (<i>i</i> and <i>u</i>) only appear either without an accent or with a grave. Since the 1980s the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Qualifications_Authority" title="Scottish Qualifications Authority">SQA</a> (which sets school standards and thus the <i>de facto</i> standard language) and most publishers have abandoned the acute accent, using <a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">grave accents</a> in all situations (analogous to <a href="#Length">the use of the acute in Irish</a>). However, universities, some publishers and many speakers continue to use acute accents.</li></ul></li> <li>To mark low vowels: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a>. The vowels <i>á</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Open front unrounded vowel">a</a>/</span>, <i>é</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Open-mid front unrounded vowel">ɛ</a>/</span> and <i>ó</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Open-mid_back_rounded_vowel" title="Open-mid back rounded vowel">ɔ</a>/</span> are stressed low vowels, in opposition to <i>â</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel" title="Near-open central vowel">ɐ</a>/</span>, <i>ê</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close-mid front unrounded vowel">e</a>/</span> and <i>ô</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close-mid back rounded vowel">o</a>/</span> which are stressed high vowels. However, the accent is only used in words whose stressed syllable is in an unpredictable location within the word: where the location of the stressed syllable is predictable, no accent is used, and the height of the stressed vowel cannot then usually be determined solely from the word's spelling.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Length">Length</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Length"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Long_vowels">Long vowels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Long vowels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a>: <span class="nowrap">⟨á, í, ú⟩</span> were used in western <a href="/wiki/Transliteration" title="Transliteration">transliteration</a> of Islamic language texts from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Representing the long vowels, they are typically transcribed with a <a href="/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)" title="Macron (diacritic)">macron</a> today except in <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_orthography" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahá'í orthography">Bahá'í orthography</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin" title="Classical Latin">Classical Latin</a>: sometimes used to represent the <a href="/wiki/Apex_(diacritic)" title="Apex (diacritic)">apex</a> in modern orthography.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a>: <span class="nowrap">⟨á, é, í, ó, ú, ý⟩</span> are the long versions of <span class="nowrap">⟨a, e, i, o, u, y⟩</span>. The accent is known as <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs">čárka</i></span>. To indicate a long <span class="nowrap">⟨u⟩</span> in the middle or at the end of a word, a <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/Ring_(diacritic)" title="Ring (diacritic)">kroužek</a></i></span> ("ring") is used instead, to form <span class="nowrap">⟨ů⟩</span>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_language" title="Hungarian language">Hungarian</a>: <span class="nowrap">⟨í, ó, ú⟩</span> are the long equivalents of the vowels <span class="nowrap">⟨i, o, u⟩</span>. <span class="nowrap">⟨ő, ű⟩</span> (see <a href="/wiki/Double_acute_accent" title="Double acute accent">double acute accent</a>) are the long equivalents of <span class="nowrap">⟨ö, ü⟩</span>. Both types of accents are known as <span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">hosszú ékezet</i></span> (<span title="Hungarian-language text"><i lang="hu">hosszú</i></span> means long). The letters <span class="nowrap">⟨á⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨é⟩</span> are two long vowels but they are also distinct in quality, rather than being the long equivalents of <span class="nowrap">⟨a⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨e⟩</span> (see below in <a href="#Letter_extension">Letter extension</a>).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <span class="nowrap">⟨á, é, í, ó, ú⟩</span> are the long equivalents of the vowels <span class="nowrap">⟨a, e, i, o, u⟩</span>, the accent affects pronunciation and meaning, e.g. <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n" class="mw-redirect" title="Seán">Seán</a></i></span> ("John") but <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">sean</i></span> ("old").<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accent is known as a <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">(síneadh) fada</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[ˌʃiːnʲə<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈfˠad̪ˠə]</a></span> ("long (sign)"), which is also used in <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a>: <span class="nowrap">⟨á, é, í, ó, ú, ý⟩</span> are the long versions of <span class="nowrap">⟨a, e, i, o, u, y⟩</span>. Sometimes, <span class="nowrap">⟨ǿ⟩</span> is used as the long version of <span class="nowrap">⟨ø⟩</span>, but <span class="nowrap">⟨œ⟩</span> is used more often. Sometimes, the short-lived <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse#Old_Icelandic" title="Old Norse">Old Icelandic long <span class="nowrap">⟨ǫ⟩</span></a> (also written <span class="nowrap">⟨ö⟩</span>) is written using an acute-accented form, <span class="nowrap">⟨ǫ́⟩</span>, or a version with a macron, <span class="nowrap">⟨ǭ⟩</span>, but usually it is not distinguished from <span class="nowrap">⟨á⟩</span> from which it is derived by <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse#Umlaut" title="Old Norse">u-mutation</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_language" title="Slovak language">Slovak</a>: the acute accent is called <span title="Slovene-language text"><i lang="sl">dĺžeň</i></span> in Slovak. In addition to the long vowels <span class="nowrap">⟨á, é, í, ó, ú, ý⟩</span>, dĺžeň is used to mark <a href="/wiki/Syllabic_consonant" title="Syllabic consonant">syllabic consonants</a> <span class="nowrap">⟨ŕ, ĺ⟩</span>, which are the long counterparts of syllabic <span class="nowrap">⟨r, l⟩</span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Short_vowels">Short vowels</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Short vowels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ligurian_(Romance_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligurian (Romance language)">Ligurian</a>: in the official orthography, <i>é</i> is used for short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[e]</span>, and <i>ó</i> is used for short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[u]</span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Palatalization">Palatalization <span class="anchor" id="Kreska"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Palatalization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A graphically similar, but not identical, mark is indicative of a <a href="/wiki/Palatalization_(phonetics)" title="Palatalization (phonetics)">palatalized</a> sound in several languages. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>, such a mark is known as a <b><span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">kreska</i></span></b> ("stroke") and is an integral part of several letters: four consonants and one vowel. When appearing in consonants, it indicates <a href="/wiki/Palatalization_(phonetics)" title="Palatalization (phonetics)">palatalization</a>, similar to the use of the <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs"><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A1%C4%8Dek" class="mw-redirect" title="Háček">háček</a></i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a> and other Slavic languages (e.g. <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs">sześć</i></span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Polish" title="Help:IPA/Polish">[ˈʂɛɕt͡ɕ]</a></span> "six"). However, in contrast to the <span title="Czech-language text"><i lang="cs">háček</i></span> which is usually used for <a href="/wiki/Postalveolar_consonant" title="Postalveolar consonant">postalveolar consonants</a>, the <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">kreska</i></span> denotes <a href="/wiki/Alveolo-palatal_consonant" title="Alveolo-palatal consonant">alveolo-palatal consonants</a>. In traditional Polish <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>, the <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">kreska</i></span> is more nearly vertical than the acute accent, and placed slightly right of center.<sup id="cite_ref-kreska_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kreska-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A similar rule applies to the Belarusian Latin alphabet <span title="Ukrainian-language text"><i lang="uk"><a href="/wiki/%C5%81acinka" class="mw-redirect" title="Łacinka">Łacinka</a></i></span>. However, for computer use, <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> conflates the <a href="/wiki/Codepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Codepoint">codepoints</a> for these letters with those of the accented Latin letters of similar appearance. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Serbo-Croatian" title="Serbo-Croatian">Serbo-Croatian</a>, as in Polish, the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨ć⟩</span> is used to represent a <a href="/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_affricate" title="Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate">voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/t͡ɕ/</span>. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization">romanization</a> of <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_language" title="Macedonian language">Macedonian</a>, <span class="nowrap">⟨ǵ⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨ḱ⟩</span> represent the <a href="/wiki/Cyrillic_script" title="Cyrillic script">Cyrillic</a> letters <span class="nowrap">⟨ѓ⟩</span> (<a href="/wiki/Gje" title="Gje">Gje</a>) and <span class="nowrap">⟨ќ⟩</span> (<a href="/wiki/Kje" title="Kje">Kje</a>), which stand for <a href="/wiki/Palatal_consonant" title="Palatal consonant">palatal</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alveolo-palatal_consonant" title="Alveolo-palatal consonant">alveolo-palatal</a> consonants, though <span class="nowrap">⟨gj⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨kj⟩</span> (or <span class="nowrap">⟨đ⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨ć⟩</span>) are more commonly used for this purpose<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. The same two letters are used to transcribe the postulated <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phonemes</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ɡʲ/</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/kʲ/</span>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sorbian_alphabet" title="Sorbian alphabet">Sorbian</a> uses the acute for palatalization as in Polish: <span class="nowrap">⟨ć dź ń⟩</span>. Lower Sorbian also uses <span class="nowrap">⟨ŕ ś ź⟩</span>, and Lower Sorbian previously used <span class="nowrap">⟨ḿ ṕ ẃ⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨b́ f́⟩</span>, also written as <span class="nowrap">⟨b' f'⟩</span>; these are now spelt as <span class="nowrap">⟨mj pj wj⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨bj fj⟩</span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tone">Tone</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Tone"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet" title="Vietnamese alphabet">Quốc Ngữ</a> system for <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>, the Yale romanization for <a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Cantonese</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a> <a href="/wiki/Romanization" title="Romanization">romanization</a> for <a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Mandarin Chinese</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bopomofo" title="Bopomofo">Bopomofo</a> <a href="/wiki/Semi-syllabary" title="Semi-syllabary">semi-syllabary</a>, the acute accent indicates a rising <a href="/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)" title="Tone (linguistics)">tone</a>. In Mandarin, the alternative to the acute accent is the number 2 after the syllable: lái = lai2. In <a href="/wiki/Cantonese_Yale" class="mw-redirect" title="Cantonese Yale">Cantonese Yale</a>, the acute accent is either tone 2, or tone 5 if the vowel(s) are followed by 'h' (if the number form is used, 'h' is omitted): má = ma2, máh = ma5. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/African_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="African languages">African languages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Athabaskan_languages" title="Athabaskan languages">Athabaskan languages</a>, it frequently marks a high tone, e.g., <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a> <i>apá</i> 'arm', <a href="/wiki/Nobiin_language" title="Nobiin language">Nobiin</a> <i>féntí</i> 'sweet date', <a href="/wiki/Ekoti_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ekoti language">Ekoti</a> <i>kaláwa</i> 'boat', <a href="/wiki/Navajo_language" title="Navajo language">Navajo</a> <i>t’áá</i> 'just'. </p><p>The acute accent is used in Serbo-Croatian dictionaries and linguistic publications to indicate a high-rising accent. It is not used in everyday writing. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disambiguation">Disambiguation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Disambiguation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The acute accent is used to disambiguate certain words which would otherwise be <a href="/wiki/Homograph" title="Homograph">homographs</a> in the following languages: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a>. Examples: <i>són</i> "they are" vs. <i>son</i> "tiredness", <i>més</i> "more" vs. <i>mes</i> "month".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>. Examples: <i>én</i> "one" vs. <i>en</i> "a/an"; <i>fór</i> "went" vs. <i>for</i> "for"; <i>véd</i> "know(s)" vs. <i>ved</i> "by"; <i>gǿr</i> "bark(s)" vs. <i>gør</i> "do(es)"; <i>dǿr</i> "die(s)" vs. <i>dør</i> "door"; <i>allé</i> "alley" vs. <i>alle</i> "everybody". Furthermore, it is also used for the imperative form of verbs ending in <i>-ere</i>, which lose their final <i>e</i> and might be mistaken for plurals of a noun (which most often end in <i>-er</i>): <i>analysér</i> is the imperative form of <i>at analysere</i> "to analyse", <i>analyser</i> is "analyses", plural of the noun <i>analyse</i> "analysis". Using an acute accent is always optional, never required.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>. Examples: <i>één</i> "one" vs. <i>een</i> "a/an"; <i>vóór</i> "before" vs. <i>voor</i> "for"; <i>vóórkomen</i> "to exist/to happen" vs. <i>voorkómen</i> "to prevent/to avoid". Using an acute accent is mostly optional.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_Greek" title="Modern Greek">Modern Greek</a>. Although all polysyllabic words have an acute accent on the stressed syllable, in monosyllabic words the presence or absence of an accent may disambiguate. The most common case is <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">η</span>, the feminine definite article ("the"), versus <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ή</span>, meaning "or". Other cases include <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">που</span></span> ("who"/"which") versus <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">πού</span></span> ("where") and <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">πως</span></span> ("that", as in "he told me <i>that</i>...") versus <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">πώς</span></span> ("how").</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a>. It is used to indicate stress on a vowel otherwise not expected to have stress. Most words are stressed on the first syllable and diacritical marks are rarely used. Although incorrect, it is frequently used to mark the imperative form of verbs ending in <i>-ere</i> as it is in Danish: <i>kontrollér</i> is the imperative form of "to control", <i>kontroller</i> is the noun "controls". The simple past of the verb <i>å fare</i>, "to travel", can optionally be written <i>fór</i>, to distinguish it from <i>for</i> (preposition "for" as in English), <i>fôr</i> "feed" <i>n.</i>/"lining", or <i>fòr</i> (only in <a href="/wiki/Nynorsk" title="Nynorsk">Nynorsk</a>) "narrow ditch, trail by plow" (all the diacritics in these examples are optional.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a>. Acute accents (technically, <a href="#Stress">stress marks</a>) are used in dictionaries to indicate the stressed syllable. They may also be optionally used to disambiguate both between <a href="/wiki/Minimal_pair" title="Minimal pair">minimal pairs</a>, such as за́мок (read as zámak, means "castle") and замо́к (read as zamók, means "lock"), and between <a href="/wiki/Interrogative_word" title="Interrogative word">question words</a> and <a href="/wiki/Relative_pronoun" title="Relative pronoun">relative pronouns</a> such as что ("what", stressed, or "that", unstressed), similarly to Spanish. This is rare, however, as usually meaning is determined by context and no stress mark is written. The same rules apply to <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_language" title="Ukrainian language">Ukrainian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rusyn_language" title="Rusyn language">Rusyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belarusian_language" title="Belarusian language">Belarusian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>. Covers various question word / relative pronoun pairs where the first is stressed and the second is a <a href="/wiki/Clitic" title="Clitic">clitic</a>, such as <i>cómo</i> (interrogative "how") and <i>como</i> (non-interrogative "how", comparative "like", "I eat"<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), differentiates <i>qué</i> (what) from <i>que</i> (that), and some other words such as <i>tú</i> "you" and <i>tu</i> "your," <i>té</i> "tea" and <i>te</i> "you" (direct/indirect object), <i>él</i> "he/him" and <i>el</i> ("the", masculine). This usage of the acute accent is called <i>tilde diacrítica</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emphasis">Emphasis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Emphasis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Danish_language" title="Danish language">Danish</a>, the acute accent can also be used for <a href="/wiki/Stress_(linguistics)" title="Stress (linguistics)">emphasis</a>, especially on the word <i>der</i> (there), as in <i>Der kan ikke være mange mennesker dér</i>, meaning "There can't be many people <i>there</i>" or <i>Dér skal vi hen</i> meaning "<i>That's</i> where we're going".</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a>, the acute accent can also be used to emphasize an individual word within a sentence. For example, <i>Dit is ónze auto, niet die van jullie</i>, "This is <i>our</i> car, not yours." In this example, <i>ónze</i> is merely an emphasized form of <i>onze</i>. Also in family names like Piét, Piél, Plusjé, Hofsté. The <a href="/wiki/IJ_digraph" class="mw-redirect" title="IJ digraph">IJ digraph</a> can be stressed with íj́ but is usually stressed as íj for technical reasons.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian script">Armenian script</a> emphasis on a word is marked by an acute accent above the word's stressed vowel; it is traditionally grouped with the Armenian question and exclamation marks which are also diacritics applied to the stressed vowel.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Letter_extension">Letter extension</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Letter extension"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Faroese_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Faroese alphabet">Faroese</a>, the acute accent is used on five of the vowels (a, i, o, u and y), but these letters, á, í, ó, ú and ý are considered separate letters with separate pronunciations. <dl><dd>á: long <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔa]</span>, short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span> and before <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[a]</span>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[õ]</span></dd> <dd>í/ý: long <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʊiː]</span>, short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʊi]</span></dd> <dd>ó: long <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔu]</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛu]</span> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[œu]</span>, short: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[œ]</span>, except Suðuroy: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span> <dl><dd>When ó is followed by the <a href="/wiki/Skerping" class="mw-redirect" title="Skerping">skerping</a> -gv, it is pronounced <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɛ]</span>, except in Suðuroy where it is <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span></dd></dl></dd> <dd>ú: long <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʉu]</span>, short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ʏ]</span> <dl><dd>When ú is followed by the skerping -gv, it is pronounced <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɪ]</span></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Hungarian_alphabet" title="Hungarian alphabet">Hungarian</a>, the acute accent marks a difference in quality on two vowels, apart from vowel length: <dl><dd>The (short) vowel <i>a</i> is <a href="/wiki/Open_back_rounded_vowel" title="Open back rounded vowel">open back rounded (ɒ)</a>, but <i>á</i> is <a href="/wiki/Open_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Open front unrounded vowel">open front unrounded (a)</a> (and long).</dd> <dd>Similarly, the (short) vowel <i>e</i> is <a href="/wiki/Open-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Open-mid front unrounded vowel">open-mid front unrounded (ɛ)</a>, while (long) <i>é</i> is <a href="/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close-mid front unrounded vowel">close-mid front unrounded (e)</a>.</dd> <dd>Despite this difference, in most of the cases, these two pairs are arranged as equal in <a href="/wiki/Collation" title="Collation">collation</a>, just like the other pairs (see above) that only differ in length.</dd></dl></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_orthography" title="Icelandic orthography">Icelandic</a> the acute accent is used on all 6 of the vowels (a, e, i, o, u and y), and, like in Faroese, these are considered separate letters.<figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg/210px-Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg/315px-Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg/420px-Icelandic_Text_Extract.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2388" data-file-height="1791" /></a><figcaption>A sample extract of <a href="/wiki/Icelandic_language" title="Icelandic language">Icelandic</a>.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd>á: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[au(ː)]</span></dd> <dd>é: long <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[jeɛː]</span>, short <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[jɛ]</span></dd> <dd>í/ý: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[i(ː)]</span></dd> <dd>ó: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ou(ː)]</span></dd> <dd>ú: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[u(ː)]</span></dd> <dd>All can be either short or long, but the pronunciation of <i>é</i> is not the same short and long.</dd> <dd>Etymologically, vowels with an acute accent in these languages correspond to their <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> counterparts, which were long vowels but in many cases have become <a href="/wiki/Diphthong" title="Diphthong">diphthongs</a>. The only exception is é, which in Faroese has become <a href="/wiki/%C3%86" title="Æ">æ</a>.</dd></dl></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Kashubian_alphabet" title="Kashubian alphabet">Kashubian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_alphabet" title="Polish alphabet">Polish</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sorbian_alphabet" title="Sorbian alphabet">Sorbian</a>, the acute on "ó", historically used to indicate a lengthening of "o" <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ɔ]</span>, now indicates <a href="/wiki/Close_vowel" title="Close vowel">higher</a> pronunciation, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[o]</span> and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[u]</span>, respectively.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet" title="Turkmen alphabet">Turkmen</a>, the letter <i>ý</i> is a consonant: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[j]</span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In some <a href="/wiki/Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a> texts predating <a href="/wiki/Standard_Basque" title="Standard Basque">Standard Basque</a>, the letters <span class="nowrap">⟨r⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨l⟩</span> carry acute accents (an invention by <a href="/wiki/Sabino_Arana" title="Sabino Arana">Sabino Arana</a><sup id="cite_ref-Trask_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trask-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), which are otherwise indicated by double letters. In such cases, <span class="nowrap">⟨ŕ⟩</span> is used to represent <span class="nowrap">⟨rr⟩</span> (a trilled <span class="nowrap">⟨r⟩</span>, this spelling is used even at the end of a syllable,<sup id="cite_ref-Arana_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arana-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to differentiate from -<span class="nowrap">⟨r⟩</span>-, an alveolar tap –  in Basque <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/r/</span> in word-final positions is always trilled) and <span class="nowrap">⟨ĺ⟩</span> for <span class="nowrap">⟨ll⟩</span> (a palatalized <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/l/</span>).</li> <li>In transliterating texts written in <a href="/wiki/Cuneiform_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneiform script">Cuneiform</a>, an acute accent over the vowel indicates that the original sign is the second representing that value in the canonical lists. Thus <i>su</i> is used to transliterate the first sign with the phonetic value <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/su/</span>, while <i>sú</i> transliterates the second sign with the value <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/su/</span>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="This looks like an error, the IPA values should not be the same, surely? (June 2020)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Emilian_dialects" class="mw-redirect" title="Emilian dialects">Emilian</a>, <i>é ó</i> denote both length and height, representing [e, o].</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a> dictionaries, <span class="nowrap">⟨é⟩</span> is used to represent <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/e/</span>, while <span class="nowrap">⟨e⟩</span> is used to represent <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ə/</span>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Northern_S%C3%A1mi" title="Northern Sámi">Northern Sámi</a>, an acute accent was placed over the corresponding <a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Latin</a> letter to represent the letters peculiar to this language (<i>Áá, Čč, Đđ, Ŋŋ, Šš, Ŧŧ, Žž</i>) when typing when there was no way of entering these letters correctly otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-Svonni_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Svonni-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Many <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> words of French origin retain an acute accent, such as <i>allé</i>, <i>kafé</i>, <i>idé</i>, <i>komité</i>. Popular usage can be sketchy and often neglects the accent, or results in the grave accent erroneously being used in its place. Likewise, in <a href="/wiki/Swedish_language" title="Swedish language">Swedish</a>, the acute accent is used only for the letter <span class="nowrap">⟨e⟩</span>, mostly in words of French origin and in some names. It is used both to indicate a change in vowel quantity as well as quality and that the stress should be on this, normally unstressed, syllable. Examples include <i>café</i> ("café") and <i>resumé</i> ("résumé", noun). There are two pairs of <a href="/wiki/Homograph" title="Homograph">homographs</a> that are differentiated only by the accent: <i>armé</i> ("army") versus <i>arme</i> ("poor; pitiful", masculine gender) and <i>idé</i> ("idea") versus <i>ide</i> ("winter quarters").</li> <li><span class="nowrap">⟨Ǵǵ⟩</span> and <span class="nowrap">⟨Źź⟩</span> are used in <a href="/wiki/Pashto_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashto language">Pashto</a> in the Latin alphabet, equivalent to <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ږ</span> and <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ځ</span>, respectively.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Romagnol" title="Romagnol">Romagnol</a>, <i>é ó</i> denote both length and height, representing [eː, oː].</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As with other diacritical marks, a number of (usually <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>) <a href="/wiki/Loanwords" class="mw-redirect" title="Loanwords">loanwords</a> are sometimes spelled in English with an acute accent as used in the original language: these include <i>attaché</i>, <i>blasé</i>, <i>canapé</i>, <i>cliché</i>, <i>communiqué</i>, <i>café</i>, <i>décor</i>, <i>déjà vu</i>, <i>détente</i>, <i>élite</i>, <i>entrée</i>, <i>exposé</i>, <i>mêlée</i>, <i>fiancé</i>, <i>fiancée</i>, <i>papier-mâché</i>, <i>passé</i>, <i>pâté</i>, <i>piqué</i>, <i>plié</i>, <i>repoussé</i>, <i>résumé</i>, <i>risqué</i>, <i>sauté</i>, <i>roué</i>, <i>séance</i>, <i>naïveté</i> and <i>touché</i>. Retention of the accent is common only in the French ending <i>é</i> or <i>ée</i>, as in these examples, where its absence would tend to suggest a different pronunciation. Thus the French word <i>résumé</i> is commonly seen in English as <i>resumé</i>, with only one accent (but also with both or none). </p><p>Acute accents are sometimes added to loanwords where a final <i>e</i> is not <a href="/wiki/Silent_e" title="Silent e">silent</a>, for example, <i><a href="/wiki/Yerba_mate" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerba mate">maté</a></i> from Spanish <i>mate,</i> the Maldivian capital <i><a href="/wiki/Mal%C3%A9" title="Malé">Malé</a>,</i> <i>saké</i> from Japanese <i><a href="/wiki/Sake" title="Sake">sake</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon" title="Pokémon">Pokémon</a></i> from the Japanese compound for <i>pocket monster,</i> the last three from languages which do not use the Roman alphabet, and where transcriptions do not normally use acute accents. </p><p>For foreign terms used in English that have not been assimilated into English or are not in general English usage, <a href="/wiki/Italic_type" title="Italic type">italics</a> are generally used with the appropriate accents: for example, <i><a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pi%C3%A8ce_de_r%C3%A9sistance" title="Pièce de résistance">pièce de résistance</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_br%C3%BBl%C3%A9e" title="Crème brûlée">crème brûlée</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Ancien_r%C3%A9gime" title="Ancien régime">ancien régime</a></i>. </p><p>The acute accent is sometimes (though rarely) used for poetic purposes: </p> <ul><li>It can mark stress on an unusual syllable: for example, <i>caléndar</i> to indicate <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[kəˈlɛn.dɚ]</span> (rather than the standard <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈkæl.ən.dɚ]</span>).</li> <li>It can disambiguate stress where the distinction is metrically important: for example, <i>rébel</i> (as opposed to <i>rebél</i>), or <i>áll trádes</i>, to show that the phrase is pronounced as a <a href="/wiki/Spondee" title="Spondee">spondee</a>, rather than the more natural <a href="/wiki/Iamb_(poetry)" title="Iamb (poetry)">iamb</a>.</li> <li>It can indicate the sounding of an ordinarily silent letter: for example, <i>pickéd</i> to indicate the pronunciation <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[ˈpɪkɪd]</span>, rather than standard <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[pɪkt]</span> (the <a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">grave accent</a> is more common for this last purpose).</li></ul> <p>The layout of some European PC keyboards, combined with problematic keyboard-driver semantics, causes some users to use an acute accent or a grave accent instead of an apostrophe when typing in English (e.g. typing John`s or John´s instead of John's).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Typographic_form">Typographic form</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Typographic form"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Acute accent in multiple fonts." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg/220px-Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg/330px-Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg/440px-Demonstration_of_acute_accent_in_multiple_font.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="358" /></a><figcaption>Acute accent in multiple <a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer fonts</a>. Gray letters indicate <i>o kreska</i> in the provided font. Notice that <i>kreska</i> in gray letters are steeper than acute accent in black letters. Also in Adobe HeiTi Std and SimSun, the stroke goes from bottom-left (thicker) to top-right (thinner), showing the rising nature of the tone; however, the acute accent in SimHei is made without variation in thickness.</figcaption></figure> <p>Western typographic and calligraphic traditions generally design the acute accent as going from top to bottom. French even has the definition of acute is the accent <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">«qui va de droite à gauche»</i></span> (English: <span lang="en">"which goes from right to left"</span>),<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meaning that it descends from top right to lower left. </p><p>In Polish, the <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">kreska</i></span> diacritic is used instead, which usually has a different shape and style compared to other European languages. It features a more vertical steep form and is moved more to the right side of center line than acute. As Unicode does not differentiate the <span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl">kreska</i></span> from acute, letters from Western (computer) fonts and Polish fonts had to share the same set of <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code points</a>, which make designing the conflicting character (i.e. <i><a href="/wiki/O_acute" class="mw-redirect" title="O acute">o acute</a></i>, <span class="nowrap">⟨ó⟩</span>) more troublesome. <a href="/wiki/OpenType" title="OpenType">OpenType</a> tried to solve this problem by giving language-sensitive glyph substitution to designers such that the font would automatically switch between Western <span class="nowrap">⟨ó⟩</span> and Polish <span class="nowrap">⟨ó⟩</span> based on language settings.<sup id="cite_ref-kreska_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kreska-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New computer fonts are sensitive to this issue and their design for the diacritics tends toward a more "universal design" so that there will be less need for localization, for example <a href="/wiki/Roboto" title="Roboto">Roboto</a> and <a href="/wiki/Noto_fonts" title="Noto fonts">Noto</a> typefaces.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">Pinyin</a> uses the acute accent to mark the second tone (rising or high-rising tone), which indicates a tone rising from low to high, causing the writing stroke of acute accent to go from lower left to top right. This contradicts the Western typographic tradition which makes designing the acute accent in Chinese typefaces a problem. Designers approach this problem in 3 ways: either keep the original Western form of going top right (thicker) to bottom left (thinner) (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Arial" title="Arial">Arial</a>/<a href="/wiki/Times_New_Roman" title="Times New Roman">Times New Roman</a>), flip the stroke to go from bottom left (thicker) to top right (thinner) (e.g. Adobe HeiTi Std/<a href="/wiki/SimSun" class="mw-redirect" title="SimSun">SimSun</a>), or just make the accents without stroke variation (e.g. <a href="/wiki/SimHei" class="mw-redirect" title="SimHei">SimHei</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unicode">Unicode<span class="anchor" id="Letters_with_acute"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Unicode"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unicode encodes a number of cases of "letter with acute accent" as <a href="/wiki/Precomposed_character" title="Precomposed character">precomposed characters</a> and these are displayed below. In addition, many more symbols may be composed using the <a href="/wiki/Combining_character" title="Combining character">combining character</a> facility (<span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0301</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em"><span style="font-family: serif;">◌́</span></span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Combining_character" title="Combining character">COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT</a></span> and <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0317</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em"><span style="font-family: serif;">◌̗</span></span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Combining_character" title="Combining character">COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT BELOW</a></span>) that may be used with any letter or other diacritic to create a customised symbol but this does not mean that the result has any real-world application and are not shown in the table. </p> <div class="nounderlines" style="font-size:160%; padding:.3em; background-color: var(--background-color-neutral, #fafafa); clear:both; color:var(--color-base, black);"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Acute <big><span style="font-family: serif">◌́</span></big><span class="nowrap">   </span><br /><b>Latin</b>:<span class="nowrap"> </span><a href="/wiki/%C3%81" title="Á">Á á</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%A4" class="mw-redirect" title="Ấ">Ấ ấ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%AE" class="mw-redirect" title="Ắ">Ắ ắ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C7%BA" class="mw-redirect" title="Ǻ">Ǻ ǻ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C4%84%CC%81" title="Ą́">Ą́ ą́</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C7%BC" class="mw-redirect" title="Ǽ">Ǽ ǽ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C4%86" title="Ć">Ć ć</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%88" title="Ḉ">Ḉ ḉ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89" title="É">É é</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%BE" class="mw-redirect" title="Ế">Ế ế</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%96" class="mw-redirect" title="Ḗ">Ḗ ḗ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C7%B4" title="Ǵ">Ǵ ǵ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%8D" title="Í">Í í</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%B8%AE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ḯ (page does not exist)">Ḯ ḯ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%B0" title="Ḱ">Ḱ ḱ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C4%B9" class="mw-redirect" title="Ĺ">Ĺ ĺ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%BE" title="Ḿ">Ḿ ḿ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%83" title="Ń">Ń ń</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%93" title="Ó">Ó ó</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%90" class="mw-redirect" title="Ố">Ố ố</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%9A" class="mw-redirect" title="Ớ">Ớ ớ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%8C" class="mw-redirect" title="Ṍ">Ṍ ṍ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%92" class="mw-redirect" title="Ṓ">Ṓ ṓ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C7%BE" class="mw-redirect" title="Ǿ">Ǿ ǿ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%94" title="Ṕ">Ṕ ṕ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%94" title="Ŕ">Ŕ ŕ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9A" title="Ś">Ś ś</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%A4" class="mw-redirect" title="Ṥ">Ṥ ṥ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9A" title="Ú">Ú ú</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C7%97" class="mw-redirect" title="Ǘ">Ǘ ǘ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BB%A8" class="mw-redirect" title="Ứ">Ứ ứ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%B8" class="mw-redirect" title="Ṹ">Ṹ ṹ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%82" title="Ẃ">Ẃ ẃ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9D" title="Ý">Ý ý</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%B9" title="Ź">Ź ź</a><br /><b>Greek</b>:<span class="nowrap"> </span><a href="/wiki/%CE%86" class="mw-redirect" title="Ά">Ά ά</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CE%88" class="mw-redirect" title="Έ">Έ έ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CE%89" class="mw-redirect" title="Ή">Ή ή</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CE%8A" class="mw-redirect" title="Ί">Ί ί</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CE%8C" class="mw-redirect" title="Ό">Ό ό</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CE%8E" class="mw-redirect" title="Ύ">Ύ ύ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%CF%93" class="mw-redirect" title="ϓ">ϓ</a><br /><b>Cyrillic</b>:<span class="nowrap"> </span><a href="/wiki/%D0%83" class="mw-redirect" title="Ѓ">Ѓ ѓ</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/%D0%8C" class="mw-redirect" title="Ќ">Ќ ќ</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technical_encoding">Technical encoding</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Technical encoding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Unicode_input" title="Unicode input">Unicode input</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Microsoft_Windows">Microsoft Windows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Microsoft Windows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Windows</a> computers with US <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_mapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Keyboard mapping">keyboard mapping</a>, letters with acute accents can be created by holding down the <a href="/wiki/Alt_key" title="Alt key">alt key</a> and typing in a three-number code on the number pad to the right of the keyboard before releasing the Alt key. Before the appearance of Spanish keyboards, Spanish speakers had to learn these codes if they wanted to be able to write acute accents, though some preferred using the Microsoft Word spell checker to add the accent for them. Some young computer users got in the habit of not writing accented letters at all.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The codes (which come from the <a href="/wiki/Code_page_437" title="Code page 437">IBM PC encoding</a>) are: </p> <ul><li>160 for á</li> <li>130 for é</li> <li>161 for í</li> <li>162 for ó</li> <li>163 for ú</li></ul> <p>On most non-US keyboard layouts (e.g. Spanish, Hiberno-English), these letters can also be made by holding <a href="/wiki/AltGr" class="mw-redirect" title="AltGr">AltGr</a> (or Ctrl+Alt with <a href="/wiki/US_international" class="mw-redirect" title="US international">US international</a> mapping) and the desired letter. Individual applications may have enhanced support for accents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="macOS">macOS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: macOS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> computers, an acute accent is placed on a vowel by pressing <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ Option</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">e</kbd> and then the vowel, which can also be capitalised; for example, á is formed by pressing <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ Option</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">e</kbd> and then <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">a</kbd>, and Á is formed by pressing <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ Option</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">e</kbd> and then <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">a</kbd>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Keyboards">Keyboards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Keyboards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_QWERTY_keyboard_language_variants" title="List of QWERTY keyboard language variants">List of QWERTY keyboard language variants</a></div> <p>Because <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Keyboard (computing)">keyboards</a> have only a limited number of keys, US English keyboards do not have keys for accented characters. The concept of <a href="/wiki/Dead_key" title="Dead key">dead key</a>, a key that modified the meaning of the next key press, was developed to overcome this problem. This acute accent key was already present on typewriters where it typed the accent without moving the carriage, so a normal letter could be written on the same place. The <a href="/wiki/US-International" class="mw-redirect" title="US-International">US-International</a> layout provides this function: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">'</kbd> is a dead key so appears to have no effect until the next key is pressed, when it adds the desired accute accent. </p><p>Computers sold in Europe (including UK) have an <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">AltGr</kbd> ('alternate graphic') key<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which adds a third and (with the <a href="/wiki/Shift_key" title="Shift key">Shift key</a>) fourth effect to most keys. Thus <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">AltGr</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">a</kbd> produces <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">á</span> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">AltGr</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">A</kbd> produces <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">Á</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acute_(phonetics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Acute (phonetics)">Acute (phonetics)</a> – Perceptual classification in phonetics<span style="display:none" class="category-annotation-with-redirected-description">Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apex_(diacritic)" title="Apex (diacritic)">Apex (diacritic)</a> – Latin diacritic similar to an acute accent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circumflex" title="Circumflex">Circumflex accent</a> – Diacritic (^) in European scripts</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_acute_accent" title="Double acute accent">Double acute accent</a> – Diacritic mark of the Latin script</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">Grave accent</a> – Diacritic used in many languages (`)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Where US standard keyboards are supplied, the right-Alt key behaves as an AltGr key.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Most languages require many more diacritics and thus an 'extended' or national <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_mapping" class="mw-redirect" title="Keyboard mapping">keyboard mapping</a> add-on is required.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acute_accent&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/síneadh"><i>Síneadh</i> dictionary entry</a> Foras na Gaeilge & New English-Irish Dictionary. 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font-size:175%;"> ◌̑ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Breve" title="Breve">breve</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inverted_breve" title="Inverted breve">inverted breve</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̌ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Caron" title="Caron">caron, háček</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̧ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Cedilla" title="Cedilla">cedilla</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̂ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Circumflex" title="Circumflex">circumflex</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̈ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)" title="Diaeresis (diacritic)">diaeresis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)" title="Umlaut (diacritic)">umlaut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Two_dots_(diacritic)" title="Two dots (diacritic)">other</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̇ </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̣ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Dot_(diacritic)" title="Dot (diacritic)">dot</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̀ </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̏ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Grave_accent" title="Grave accent">grave</a>, <a href="/wiki/Double_grave_accent" title="Double grave accent">double grave</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̉ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Hook_above" title="Hook above">hook above</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̡ </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̢ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Palatal_hook" title="Palatal hook">palatal hook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Retroflex_consonant#Transcription" title="Retroflex consonant">retroflex hook</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̛ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Horn_(diacritic)" title="Horn (diacritic)">horn</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌ͅ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Iota_subscript" title="Iota subscript">iota subscript</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̄ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)" title="Macron (diacritic)">macron</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̨ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Ogonek" title="Ogonek">ogonek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nosin%C4%97" class="mw-redirect" title="Nosinė">nosinė</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̊ </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̥ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Ring_(diacritic)#Overring" title="Ring (diacritic)">overring</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ring_(diacritic)#Underring" title="Ring (diacritic)">underring</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌͂ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Greek_diacritics" title="Greek diacritics">perispomene</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌͗ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Sicilicus" title="Sicilicus">sicilicus</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̃ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Tilde" title="Tilde">tilde</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌῾ </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌᾿ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Rough_breathing" title="Rough breathing">rough breathing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smooth_breathing" title="Smooth breathing">smooth breathing</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet#Numerals,_diacritics_and_punctuation" title="Early Cyrillic alphabet">Early Cyrillic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌҄ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Kamora_(diacritic)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamora (diacritic)">kamora</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌҇ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Pokrytie" title="Pokrytie">pokrytie</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌҃ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Titlo" title="Titlo">titlo</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Brahmic_scripts" title="Brahmic scripts">Indic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">ं</span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">ং</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Odia-language text"><span lang="or">ଂ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Malayalam-language text"><span lang="ml">ം</span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Anusvara" title="Anusvara">anusvara</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">ऽ</span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">ঽ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Odia-language text"><span lang="or">ଽ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Telugu-language text"><span lang="te">ఽ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Malayalam-language text"><span lang="ml">ഽ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Tigrinya-language text"><span lang="ti">྅</span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Avagraha" title="Avagraha">avagraha</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">ँ</span>  </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Telugu-language text"><span lang="te">ఁ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Tigrinya-language text"><span lang="ti">ྃ</span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Chandrabindu" title="Chandrabindu">chandrabindu</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">़</span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Nuqta" title="Nuqta">nuqta</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">्</span>  </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Malayalam-language text"><span lang="ml">്</span></span>  </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Telugu-language text"><span lang="te">్</span></span>  </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Kannada-language text"><span lang="kn">್</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Sinhala-language text"><span lang="si">්</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Burmese-language text"><span lang="my">်</span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Virama" title="Virama">virama</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span class="Unicode">ः</span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Bengali-language text"><span lang="bn">ঃ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Odia-language text"><span lang="or">ଃ</span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span title="Tamil-language text"><span lang="ta">ஃ</span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Visarga" title="Visarga">visarga</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In other scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_diacritics" title="Arabic diacritics">Arabic diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_diacritics" title="Greek diacritics">Greek diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gurmukh%C4%AB_alphabet#Other_signs" class="mw-redirect" title="Gurmukhī alphabet">Gurmukhī diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrew_diacritics" title="Hebrew diacritics">Hebrew diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet#Diacritics" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">diacritics in IPA</a></li> <li>Japanese <a href="/wiki/Kana#Diacritics" title="Kana">kana diacritics</a> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span style="font-size:75%;"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja" style="font-style: normal;">◌゙</span></span></span> </span> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> <span style="font-size:75%;"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja" style="font-style: normal;">◌゚</span></span></span> </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Dakuten_and_handakuten" title="Dakuten and handakuten">dakuten, handakuten</a></span></span> </li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khmer_alphabet#Diacritics" class="mw-redirect" title="Khmer alphabet">Khmer diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syriac_alphabet#Latin_alphabet_and_romanization" title="Syriac alphabet">Syriac diacritics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_alphabet#Other_symbols_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Thai alphabet">Thai diacritics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Marks used as diacritics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌’ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Apostrophe" title="Apostrophe">apostrophe</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌̸ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Bar_(diacritic)" title="Bar (diacritic)">bar</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌: </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Colon_(punctuation)#Diacritical_usage" title="Colon (punctuation)">colon</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌, </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Comma#Diacritical_usage" title="Comma">comma</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌. </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Full_stop" title="Full stop">full stop/period</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌˗ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Hyphen" title="Hyphen">hyphen</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌′ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Prime_(symbol)" title="Prime (symbol)">prime</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-diacritic uses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ^ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Caret_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caret (computing)">caret (computing)</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ° </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Degree_symbol" title="Degree symbol">degree symbol</a></span></span> </li> <li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ~ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Tilde#Mathematics" title="Tilde">tilde § Mathematics</a></span></span> </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0;line-height:185%; background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"> <span style="background:#efefef; font-size:175%;"> ◌ </span> <span style="font-size:95%"><a href="/wiki/Dotted_circle" title="Dotted circle">dotted circle</a> (placeholder glyph character)</span></span> </li> <li><a href="/wiki/Combining_character#Unicode_ranges" title="Combining character">combining character § Unicode ranges</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div>See also: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical_marks" title="English terms with diacritical marks">English terms with diacritical marks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Metal_umlaut" title="Metal umlaut">Metal umlaut</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punctuation" title="Punctuation">Punctuation marks</a></li> <li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Diacritics" title="Category:Diacritics">Category: Diacritics</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Latin_script" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Latin_script/main" title="Template:Latin script/main"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Latin_script/main" class="mw-redirect" title="Template talk:Latin script/main"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Latin_script/main" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Latin 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin_alphabet" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Latin alphabet">Classical Latin alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISO_basic_Latin_alphabet" title="ISO basic Latin alphabet">ISO basic Latin alphabet</a></li> <li>Phonetic alphabets <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">International Phonetic Alphabet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X-SAMPA" title="X-SAMPA">X-SAMPA</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spelling_alphabet" title="Spelling alphabet">Spelling alphabet</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Letters (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_letters" title="List of Latin-script letters">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <table style="margin: 0 -0.25em; width: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="26"><div style="width:100%; background:#e0e0e0;; text-align:center;">Letters of the <a href="/wiki/ISO_basic_Latin_alphabet" title="ISO basic Latin alphabet">ISO basic Latin alphabet</a></div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/A" title="A">Aa</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/B" title="B">Bb</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/C" title="C">Cc</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/D" title="D">Dd</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/E" title="E">Ee</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/F" title="F">Ff</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/G" title="G">Gg</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/H" title="H">Hh</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/I" title="I">Ii</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">Jj</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/K" title="K">Kk</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/L" title="L">Ll</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/M" title="M">Mm </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/N" title="N">Nn</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/O" title="O">Oo</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/P" title="P">Pp</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/Q" title="Q">Qq</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/R" title="R">Rr</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/S" title="S">Ss</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/T" title="T">Tt</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/U" title="U">Uu</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/V" title="V">Vv</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/W" title="W">Ww</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/X" title="X">Xx</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">Yy</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class=""><a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Zz </a></span> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="26"><div style="width:100%; background:#e0e0e0;; text-align:center;">Letters using <a class="mw-selflink selflink">acute accent</a> (<span style="font-weight:100; font-size:125%;"> ◌́ </span>)</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%81" title="Á">Áá </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C4%86" title="Ć">Ćć </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%88" title="Ḉ">Ḉḉ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%89" title="É">Éé </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/w/index.php?title=F%CC%81&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="F́ (page does not exist)">F́ f́</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C7%B4" title="Ǵ">Ǵǵ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%8D" title="Í">Í í </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%B0" title="Ḱ">Ḱḱ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C4%B9" class="mw-redirect" title="Ĺ">Ĺĺ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B8%BE" title="Ḿ">Ḿḿ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%83" title="Ń">Ńń </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%93" title="Ó">Óó </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%94" title="Ṕ">Ṕṕ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%94" title="Ŕ">Ŕŕ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%9A" title="Ś">Śś </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%9A" title="Ú">Úú </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%82" title="Ẃ">Ẃẃ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/X%CC%81" class="mw-redirect" title="X́">X́x́ </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C3%9D" title="Ý">Ýý </a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"><a href="/wiki/%C5%B9" title="Ź">Źź</a></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:3.85%;"><span class="nounderlines"></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin-script_multigraph" title="Latin-script multigraph">Multigraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_digraphs" title="List of Latin-script digraphs">Digraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ch_(digraph)" title="Ch (digraph)">Ch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dz_(digraph)" title="Dz (digraph)">Dz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C5%BE" title="Dž">Dž</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gh_(digraph)" title="Gh (digraph)">Gh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IJ_(digraph)" title="IJ (digraph)">IJ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lj_(digraph)" title="Lj (digraph)">Lj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ll" title="Ll">Ll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_ly" title="Hungarian ly">Ly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nh_(digraph)" title="Nh (digraph)">Nh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nj_(digraph)" title="Nj (digraph)">Nj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ny_(digraph)" title="Ny (digraph)">Ny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sh_(digraph)" title="Sh (digraph)">Sh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sz_(digraph)" title="Sz (digraph)">Sz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th_(digraph)" title="Th (digraph)">Th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_trigraphs" title="List of Latin-script trigraphs">Trigraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_dzs" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian dzs">dzs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eau_(trigraph)" title="Eau (trigraph)">eau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_tetragraphs" title="List of Latin-script tetragraphs">Tetragraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ough_(orthography)" title="Ough (orthography)">ough</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_pentagraphs" title="List of Latin-script pentagraphs">Pentagraphs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Tzsch" class="mw-redirect" title="Tzsch">tzsch</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Keyboard layouts (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin-script_keyboard_layouts" title="List of Latin-script keyboard layouts">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/QWERTY" title="QWERTY">QWERTY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QWERTZ" title="QWERTZ">QWERTZ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AZERTY" title="AZERTY">AZERTY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout" title="Dvorak keyboard layout">Dvorak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colemak" title="Colemak">Colemak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%89PO" title="BÉPO">BÉPO</a></li> 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